For the Girsberger
showroom in the Pacific Design Center I had introduced the company to
the idea of creating "produt zones" within the display area
so that each product group could be highlighted according to its place
inthe overall product line.

Although
each product group had a distinct name, and its own pricepoint, style
and functional attributes all of product had previously been displayed
in simple rows, so that the showrooms tended to look like an undifferentiated
group of chairs.

With the
sucess of the 1994 showroom Girsberger invited me to create a portable,
reusable trade show booth using the same design principles. The booth
was also designed to be "upgradeable" and "updatable"
every few years, as the product line evolved and public taste in styles
changed.

Time and
budget constraints dictated that after an initial meeting with the client
I wouldn't meet with them again until the project was completely constructed.
To help insure that the client understood and approved the project design
I produced a computer-generated animated fly-through of the proposed booth
design.

In 1995 CG-flythroughs
were not componly created for modest and small-scale projects, and there
was no easy way to deliver computer-based media to the client (in North
Carolina) from Southern California.

So I created
the flythrough as an animated flipbook. Girsberger could study individual
frames with out having to pause a video tape or deal with Quicktime movies
over the internet, technology that the client had no experience with.